Mehr lesen
Informationen zum Autor Sid Fleischman wrote more than sixty books for children, adults, and magicians. Among his many awards was the Newbery Medal for his novel The Whipping Boy . The author described his wasted youth as a magician and newspaperman in his autobiography The Abracadabra Kid . His other titles include The Entertainer and the Dybbuk , a novel, and three biographies, Sir Charlie: Chaplin, The Funniest Man in the World ; The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West ; and Escape! The Story of The Great Houdini . Laura Cornell is the illustrator of Jamie Lee Curtis’s When I Was Little : A Four-Year-Old’s Memoir of Her Youth and Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born , as well as Annie Bananie by Leah Komaiko. Born and raised in California, she lives in New York City with her happy daughter, Lilly, and their two cats. Laura has closet moods. Klappentext A madcap tale of fog and phantoms Opie and Aunt Etta think there's something funny going on when Professor Pepper announces that he's going to raise the ghost of a dead outlaw--live on stage. Can Opie cut through all t he fog to get to the bottom of the professor's plans? See the Ghost of Crookneck John! That's what Professor Pepper's sign promises, and Opie can hardly wait to see such a sight. But the unseen specter escapes from his coffin during the show, and if that weren't bad enough, the town bank is robbed too! Is Crookneck John a bandit from beyond the grave--or is more than the fog being pulled over the townsfolk's' eyes? A reissue of one of Sid Fleischman's early novels. Zusammenfassung A madcap tale of fog and phantoms Opie and Aunt Etta think there's something funny going on when Professor Pepper announces that he's going to raise the ghost of a dead outlaw--live on stage. Can Opie cut through all t he fog to get to the bottom of the professor's plans? See the Ghost of Crookneck John! That's what Professor Pepper's sign promises, and Opie can hardly wait to see such a sight. But the unseen specter escapes from his coffin during the show, and if that weren't bad enough, the town bank is robbed too! Is Crookneck John a bandit from beyond the grave--or is more than the fog being pulled over the townsfolk's' eyes? A reissue of one of Sid Fleischman's early novels....
